Out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper hopped on Twitter earlier this week to express support for Derrick Gordon, the UMass sophomore who became the first openly gay man in Division I college basketball after coming out on Wednesday.
Watching coverage of the story that included interviews with Gordon himself, Cooper called the move “incredibly courageous and inspiring”:
Watching @flash2gordon speak about being out and proud, he is incredibly courageous and inspiring.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) April 10, 2014
Cooper’s followers overwhelmingly echoed his sentiment, save one homophobic hater. Damian Goddard, a Canadian news sports anchor who was fired from his previous job in 2011 after expressing his anti-gay marriage stance on Twitter, said Cooper was “dead wrong.”
Bold words from a NOM spokesperson who also called President Obama a terrorist in 2012:
How about we take this to the next level?
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@andersoncooper @flash2gordon Mr. Cooper, you seem a good man with a warm heart. But you are dead wrong on #homosexuality. #prayingforyou
— Damian Goddard (@heydamo) April 10, 2014
Anderson Cooper’s response, with grace:
.@heydamo with that tie and pocket square combo I am praying for you too my friend
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) April 10, 2014
Aaaand we have a winner.
Captain Obvious
Daaaaaaaaaaamn, go, Anderson. Read 9 more and you get a free personal pan pizza. You Book-it, boy.
sonofabee
Zing!
carey579
lol love it 🙂
Black Pegasus
How does a clown like Damian Goddard hold down a job with bigoted views like that?
Billy Budd
It was the perfect answer. Instead of continuing the discussion, as was the objective of the bigot, he just riculed the bigot saying he would never get laid.
Cam
To all the apologists who used to come on here foaming at the mouth attacking anybody suggestion Cooper come out, and screaming “What difference would it make if he was out?”
THAT is what difference it makes. Well done Mr. Cooper.
tjr101
Where is Blow Job McFrisky to defend this right-winger?
Ms Urethra Johnson
Is that a comb-over or hair plugs, or a combo of both?
northwest
BOOM!
nemesis9
Good one. He really zinged him by stereotyping gay guys.
Billy Budd
I am mostly a top, but I would easily bottom for Anderson. He is the cutest, smartest guy in the market.
robho3
Snap
culburraboy
@Billy Budd: Love it Billy! 😀
drivendervish
Perhaps I am missing something but responding to a hateful remark by attacking this guys fashion sense (or lack thereof)isn’t particularly helpful in my opinion. It trivializes the remark and stereotypes gay people as silly, vacuous and more interested in putting others down in a very shallow manner than responding intelligently to a clearly misguided individual.
Billy Budd
@drivendervish: You are wrong. If he tried to reason with the guy, explaining that being gay is natural, he would just be flooded with more biblical arguments “proving” that homosexuality is wrong. It is much better to destroy the enemy by ridiculing him.